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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1997
Yoshiyuki Takagi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Teruo Takeshita, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Masayasu Ota, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Fumio Kishida, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Takamasa Nakamura, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hitoshi Sekiguchi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
For a combination of a first movable body adaptive for an automatic motion to provide an equivalent service to a required service, and a second movable body capable of exercising a voluntary motion and to cooperate with the first movable body to provide the voluntary motion as one of assistance and teaching to the first movable body to sophisticate the automatic motion, there are provided a first controller operative in a first mode for controlling the first moving body to exercise the automatic motion and in a second mode for adapting the first movable body to cooperate with the second movable body so that the automatic motion is sophisticated to be capable of achieving an equivalent service to the required service in a sophisticated manner, and a second controller for selecting one of the first and second modes.